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Some of you may be familiar with the bitmap (raster) fonts that I have created a few years back or the Raster Font Editor software that I've written for MS Windows. I've been using Linux quite a lot recently so I decided at some point to convert them to BDF (Binary distribution format) files. Here's a quick guide on how to download them and install them:Download FontsYou can either download from here or type this from a terminal window:wget http://www.cylog.org/files/fonts/cylog_fonts_bdf.zip
Unzip and Copy fontsIn a terminal window type the following:unzip cylog_fonts_bdf.zip
mkdir ~/.fonts
mv *.bdf ~/.fonts
cd ~/.fonts
ls
...and ensure you can see the *.bdf files listed.Convert the BDF files to PCFTo do the conversion we use the command line utility bdftocpf, and then we remove the BDF files:bdftopcf -o leros10.pcf leros10.bdf
bdftopcf -o leros.pcf leros.bdf
bdftopcf -o lini.pcf lini.bdf
bdftopcf -o yamahana.pcf yamahana.bdf
bdftopcf -o yamaha.pcf yamaha.bdf
rm *.bdf
ls …